Flourish51
Where design-thinking meets human flourishing.
FLOURISH51
A human-centered design and innovation studio designing lives and cultures where well-being, meaning, and high-performance thrive together.
Our Practice Areas
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Flourishing Life Design
Strengths-based design for flourishing lives, careers and family systems.
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Flourishing Systems Design
Cultivating flourishing teams, organizations, ecosystems, and collaborative networks.
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The GEM Lab
A mobile, immersive creative space—hosted on-site or in curated off-site settings—to ideate, design & prototype new approaches.
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The Flourishing Youth Academy
Growing creative confidence and global citizenship through strengths-based innovation.
Flourish51 is prototyping a new design approach…
..one that blends human-centered design with the science of human flourishing & the wisdom of nature. We are calling it flourishing-centered design.
Today, Flourish51 operates as a global design studio & innovation lab supporting individuals, organizations, and young people through life design, career design, and organizational design—alongside The Flourishing Youth Academy, our youth-centered design studio dedicated to cultivating the next generation of flourishing designers.
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Flourish51 is a design studio and innovation lab exploring the integration of human-centered design with well-being science. Our ecosystem of services, Youth Design (FYA), Life Design, Systems Design, and GEM Lab, is structured around natural rhythms of growth, integration, and renewal.
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Flourish51 operates like a iving learning laboratory. Every engagement operates as a prototype—cyclical, strengths-based, and grounded in awareness, experimentation, and measurable flourishing outcomes.
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Flourish51 works with people and organizations ready to awaken their inner creative agency to design systems & lives built to thrive
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Strategic Intensives
Focused, high-impact engagements designed to clarify direction, unlock strengths, and align strategy.
Design Labs
Structured innovation environments where teams prototype new models, partnerships, and systems in real time.
Advisory Partnerships
Ongoing strategic counsel supporting leaders as they design, test, and refine adaptive systems.
Journeys & Retreats
Immersive experiences that create space for reflection, reimagination, and renewal at individual and institutional levels.
Training & Certification
Capacity-building programs to embed flourishing-centered design into lives, organizations, schools, and partner networks.
Meet the Founder
For more than 15 years, my work sat at the intersection of health, medicine, and scientific research. I served as a advocate for global public health and a human-centered design expert to some of the world’s most complex and persistent health challenges.
That work gave me deep exposure to the global R&D ecosystem—its brilliance, its blind spots, and its limits—as well as a strong foundation in scientific and medical knowledge. Over time, however, a deeper question began to guide me. Not simply how do we treat disease?
But how do humans truly flourish?
Both my professional experience and my personal life made it clear that systems designed solely around fixing problems often miss what allows people to thrive. That realization led me to embark on a scientific journey of my own: to understand flourishing itself.
I immersed myself in the science of human flourishing—commonly known as positive psychology—earning certifications as a practitioner, educator, and coach. As part of that training, I launched a real-world experiment: applying evidence-based flourishing practices in my own life and in collaboration with others. That experiment became Flourish51 in 2021—and it continues to this day.
Welcome to Flourish51,
Sharyn Tenn, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
